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Originally Posted by badgeguy
If any society wants to get away from a hazing culture, is to call it what it really is, bullying.
Plain and simple, kids are hazed or bullied in high school, maybe even elementary or middle school. They then go on to college and are either "hazed" or bullied, or they become the person who does the bullying or hazing.
Hazing is a LEARNED trait...... It will take time, but we have to enforce acceptable behavior early in schools in order for those good people to come to college and stop it.
No amount of laws or charter withdraws will ever stop people from doing this. And as everyone has seen already, it's not just "fraternities" that haze, but many organizations have this in their midsts.....change the culture and you'll lower or eliminate hazing, or bullying as it really is.
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I agree with most of what you're saying. I've researched this an I've spoken about the Bullying-to-Hazing Pipeline extensively.
But bullying and hazing are not synonymous. If you try to conflate them, it undermines both.
But if you do indeed eliminate bullying at the middle and high school levels, you have created a generation of youth who will not tolerate hazing.
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